Raliegh NC locals SPOTBEAM???

[jamieh1]

I have the Greenville NC locals and they are on the 72.5 sat, however the UNC TV (pbs) is off the 101w sat from Raliegh NC.
I have a vacation home in the Boone NC area which is in the North Western NC mountains, The UNC channel does not come in, says searching for signal.

Are the Raliegh channels on a spotbeam?

UNC is a state wide channel which is broadcast on about 10 different transmitters,
The Greenville area is off of WUNK, however Directv just dropped WUNK off 72.5 and now feed us the Raliegh signal off WUNC.
Must be a spot beam, because here in the eastern side of NC we get it, out west no signal.

 

[charper1]

As I have known it, ALL LIL are spot beams no matter what sat they are on. DNS from LA & NYC are CONUS.

 

[Greg Bimson]

Yes, jamielee. You should have asked me...

The spot-beam for the eastern half of North Carolina contains only the Raleigh locals and UNC TV, on transponder 28.

The spot-beam for the western and central portions of North Carolina, which also covers much of South Carolina, contains Greenville, Greensboro, Charlotte and Columbia, and each of those markets get a single feed of UNC TV from that beam, which contains transponders 20, 12 and 4.

 

[dishrich]

As I have known it, ALL LIL are spot beams no matter what sat they are on.

NOT on the 72.5 bird - it's ALL CONUS...

 

[charper1]

Sorry I was referring to the "non-wing" birds only. I assumed everyone knew that the "wing locals" were CONUS.

 

[Greg Bimson]

Here.

This is what is known about DirecTV local channels. It is up to date as of about three months ago.

 

[jamieh1]

My uncle lives in the Waynesville NC area which gets it locals from Greenville SC-Asheville NC, he also has a home here in Eastern NC, his GRV SC locals work here on the east coast.

 

[Greg Bimson]

Yes, the one thing about DirecTV 4S is that it appears the signal range extends beyond what the spots show on the map.